aesthete

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It loudly shattered into more than 100 pieces, quickly drawing the attention of fair-going aesthetes who gathered around with mouths agape and cellphones poised.

From Los Angeles Times

A self-described “besotted aesthete” and “obsessed moralist,” she sought to challenge conventional thinking.

From Los Angeles Times

Levine “would chide you,” Sallick said, “if you showed him something that was too attractive. He would accuse you of being an aesthete!”

From Washington Post

Nationalistic right-wingers targeted such “painted and powdered” young men for persecution, but in “Brideshead Revisited” fashion, the effeminate met the parodic in the defiant aesthetes’ pursuits.

From Washington Post

The doctrine of art for art’s sake is for decadent aesthetes, oozing privilege.

From Washington Post